Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Skeleton Run / John L. DeBoer

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Author:

A
retired surgeon and father of two grown sons, John DeBoer lives in
North Carolina with his wife. He has written five other novels.

Description:

"Twenty
years ago, four teenage boys left a baby behind in a crushed car
after they caused the tragic accident that took the mother’s life.
Ever since, they’ve guarded the secret that would’ve ruined their
lives and destroyed their future careers. But when one of them
succumbs to illness, a blackmailer makes contact, and the survivors
realize that, somehow, someone else knows. Now, everything that
matters to them is at stake.

Las
Vegas billionaire Wendell Logan is pursuing the role of political
kingmaker, and he’s selected his unsuspecting king: Alan Granger,
governor of Pennsylvania. Granger confesses his closet skeleton to
Logan, but the tycoon has invested too much time and money into
Granger’s future presidential campaign to let him and his old
friends endanger Logan’s power play.”

Appraisal:

There
are a couple of major themes that run through Skeleton
Run.
The first and most obvious, how skeletons in the closet can come back
to haunt you. While many of us made mistakes when we were young and
stupid, I trust few of us have skeletons as serious as the boys in
this book. The other theme is money in politics, specifically by
looking at what might go wrong with allowing the rich and powerful to
have few restraints on political donations in the wake of the US
Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision. The result is a fast-paced
thriller with some entertaining twists, including an interesting way
of tying the initial thread of the accident and the baby left behind
to the more current timeline and political intrigue. Thriller fans
will find Skeleton
Run
to be an intense, satisfying read.

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